{"id":1448349,"date":"2022-04-21T00:11:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1448349"},"modified":"2022-04-21T00:11:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T04:11:19","slug":"the-covid-authoritarians-panic-over-the-end-of-the-mask-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-covid-authoritarians-panic-over-the-end-of-the-mask-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"The COVID Authoritarians Panic Over The End Of The Mask Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-covid-authoritarians-panic-over-the-end-of-the-mask-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1448349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/masks-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>This week, a federal judge in Florida finally struck down a federal mask mandate from the Centers for Disease Control. An extensive number of executive branch agencies have acted in authoritarian manner throughout the covid era \u2013 OSHA infamously attempted to cram down a vaccine mandate on every private employer in America, a policy struck down by the Supreme Court; the CDC blocked evictions for over a year based on the premise that millions would be thrown from their homes if they didn\u2019t take action. But the CDC\u2019s travel mask mandate has been particularly annoying for Americans, given the fact that all over the country, Americans have either been vaccinated or acquired natural immunity, and that there is no evidence whatsoever that cloth or surgical masks do anything against the omicron variant of covid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nonetheless, the CDC pressed forward this month with a new extension to its mask mandate, despite the fact that the CDC simultaneously argued that beginning in late May, it would relieve Title 42, a regulation designed to allow Border Patrol to turn away likely illegal immigrants at the border. That regulation was rooted in the premise that a covid emergency negated the legal requirement to process asylum seekers. The White House provided zero justification for the CDC\u2019s extension; instead, White House press secretary Jen Psaki struggled to explain why toddlers on planes should remain masked, but attendees at the White House press room didn\u2019t have to. \u201cI\u2019m not a doctor,\u201d she spat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Of course, Psaki\u2019s lack of medical background hasn\u2019t prevented her from announcing that the best standard of medical care requires minors who are gender confused to receive puberty blockers on the path toward genital-mutilating surgery. But Americans shouldn\u2019t expect consistency from their moral betters in the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Upon the announcement of the judge\u2019s ruling striking down the CDC mask mandate on the grounds that the CDC hadn\u2019t actually bothered to follow its own regulatory procedures, the Left went into spasms of apoplexy. Public figures began posting pictures of themselves donning masks on planes: former Obama chief of staff Valerie Jarrett tweeted, \u201cWearing my mask no matter what non-scientists tell me I can do\u201d; Roland Martin tweeted, \u201cI don\u2019t give a damn what some grossly unqualified Donald Trump judge said. I\u2019m double masked and wearing goggles on this Nashville to DC flight. I had COVID in December. Y\u2019all can KISS MY ASS about me not wanting it again. And any fool saying they don\u2019t matter is a damn liar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, it should be said that nobody has actively banned anyone rom wearing a mask. It is your choice to don one, as epidemiologically useless as such a gesture may be. But those on the Left seem to be under the wild misimpression that anything not prohibited is now mandatory \u2013 an act of pure intellectual projection springing from the Left\u2019s insistence on collective rule-making. For those on the Left, individual freedom represents a threat to everyone; to allow individuals the ability to choose therefore undermines the entire scheme. Those on the Left simply project this mindset onto everyone else. Thus, they believe that anyone who opposes mask mandates wants to force everyone to unmask.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is untenable but predictable: for those on the Left, the collective is the irreducible unit of politics. There are no individuals. And anyone who disagrees is, in the words of Robin Givhan of The Washington Post, \u201cchildish and selfish.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Or perhaps \u2013 just perhaps \u2013 the most childish and selfish among us are those who beg government agencies to exceed their statutory authority in order to ensure that we all mirror their favored priorities. Perhaps those who have spent two years declaring their authority over every aspect of Americans\u2019 lives ought to consider the possibility that we\u2019re happy to let them ruin their own, but that we would prefer they leave us alone. And most of all, perhaps the covid paranoics ought to spend just a moment considering whether there is a space between mandatory and prohibited where others might be granted a smidgen of liberty.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a federal judge in Florida finally struck down a federal mask mandate from the Centers for Disease Control. 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